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Patented Dec. 24

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH \V. FULCI-IER, OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, ASSI GNOR OF ONE-HALF TOJAMES STUART PILCIIER, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED PLANING AND SAWING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,118, dated December24, 1889.

Application filed April 8, 1889. Serial No. 306,482. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. FULCI-IER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Nashville, in the county of Davidson and a I and detailshereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical longitudinal sectional view ofthe improved machine; Fig. 2, a top plan view with certain partsremoved; Fig. 3, an end view, and Figs.

l, 5, and 6 views illustrating certain details.

A represents the outline of the frame of the machine; B, the uppercutter-head; G, the lower cutter-head; D D, the first set of feed-rolls,and E E the second set of rolls,

' the upper rolls D and E of each set being capable of adjustment towardand from its companion. A bent arm (or arms) a is bolted rigidly to theside of the frame A, and to the overhanging part of the arm is hinged orpiv 3o oted a frame F, upon which is adj ustably secured a saw-carryingframe G, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. The frame F moves over the faceof a bracket 1), bolted to the inside of the main frame, and the bracketis pro- 3 5 vided with a slot curved concentric with the pivot'of frameF, to receive a bolt 0, carried by the frame and passing through theslot, so that the said frame maybe inclined and held in its inclinedposition.

The frame G, which carries the boxes or bearings H for the saw-shaft I,is designed to be adjusted vertically by means of a screw J, carried atthe lower end of the frame F, as shown in Figs. 1 and '3.

The saw-shaft I is provided with a beltpulley K and a saw L.

M M indicate yokes or brackets secured to the upper face of the bed ortable A, and slotted in their upright portions, as shown in Fig. 1, toreceive bolts d, which project from the sides of a dividing-board N,designed to be in the same plane with the saw. The slotted brackets Mpermit this board to be inclined and raised and lowered to suit thevarious adjustments of the saw.

Projecting from the upper and lower sides of the board are rollers O,which turn or rotate in recesses therein, these rollers being applied tothat part of the board which passes between the feed-rolls E E, as inFig. 1, and designed to relieve the board of the friction due to thepressure of the rolls upon the lumber.

By hinging or pivoting the saw-frame F G on the inside face or side ofthe main frame economy in room is secured, and at the same time theoperator is enabled to get close to the side of the machine.

The machine herein shown differs from I those in which the saw islocated at the end of the frame, in that the sawing is done prior to thefinishing, which I consider a material advance in the art over thosemachines that saw the lumber subsequently to the finishing, as I findthat in the latter class of machines any irregularities in the finishingof the lumber are apt to be enlarged in the subsequent sawing. By sawingfirst, one piece of lumber goes above and the other below thedividing-board, and, owing to the arrange- 8o ment of the feed-rolls andthe rollers in the board, each piece of lumber is pressed against thedividing-board at a point close to the cutter-heads, and while thuspressed its sides and edges are dressed, thereby producing two perfectpieces of lumber of uniform thickness throughout their length.

The means herein shown for adjusting the saw and the dividing-board soas to cut and finish the two pieces of lumber on a bevel are also ofconsiderable importance in a machine of this character, and are broadlynew with me, so far as I am aware.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 5 i 1. In acombined planing and sawing machine, the combination, with a main frame,of a horizontally-arranged saw, two cutter-heads, and a horizontalguide-board arranged between the two cutter-heads in line with the I00saw, all substantially as shown.

2. In a combined planing and sawing inachine, the combination, with amain frame, of

' a saw, a support for the saw hinged or pivoted to the main frame,means for adj usting the frame, two cutter-heads, and an adj ustableguide-board interposed between the cutter-heads in line with the saw.

3. In a combined planing and sawing machine, the combination, with amain frame, of a saw and its supporting-frame hinged or pivoted to theinner face of one of the sides of the main frame, the horizontalcutter-heads, and the horizontal guide-board arranged between thecutter-heads and in line with the saw.

4. In a combined planer and sawer, the guide-board provided with rollersprojecting from its opposite faces, as shown, in combination with thepresser-rolls, the saw, and the cutters.

5. In a combined planer and sawer, the combination, with a main frame,of a saw, and cutter-heads, presser-rolls, and an intermediateguide-board provided with rollers in both faces, the said rollers beingapplied to the board at a point above and below the respectivefeed-rolls.

6. In a combined planer and sawer, the combination, with a main frame,of slotted brackets secured thereto, 'a guide board mounted in thebrackets, cutter-heads above and below the board, a saw in line with theboard, and presser-rolls, all arranged substantially as shown.

'7. In a combined planer and sawer, the combination, with a main frame,of an arm or bracket a, secured thereto, a frame F, hinged at its upperend to the bracket, a second frame G, mounted upon the frame F andprovided with boxes or bearings for the sawshaft, a screw J, foradjusting the frame G vertically upon the frame F, a slotted bracketsecured to the main frame, and a bolt carried by the lower end of frameF and adapted to work in the slot in the bracket, all substantially asdescribed.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my I Witnesses:

LEMUEL R. CAMPBELL, E. B. DUVAL.

